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This 1998 NASA file holds UFO-related letters from constituents that were forwarded by members of Congress, together with NASA's handling records. Senator Olympia Snowe forwarded letters from Maine residents, including a 12-year-old who asked for Roswell documents and listed a number of reported sightings. Senator Charles Grassley forwarded a question about astronaut UFO sightings. NASA's reply says it has no UFO program and has not withheld anything. The reply enclosed a NASA fact sheet and James Oberg's article, which explains the Gemini-4 McDivitt object as the spacecraft's own booster.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Released with redactions. This collection of documents, primarily from 1998, contains draft and final correspondence from the White House and the offices of members of Congress responding to constituent inquiries about Unidentified Flying Objects, or “UFOs.” These inquiries cover a diverse range of topics, including alleged UFO sightings by NASA astronauts, questions regarding the authenticity of photos collected during U.S. missions to Mars, alleged improper withholding of information by the U.S. Government, questions regarding the appropriateness of “UFO-related” governmental spending, and calls for congressional hearings regarding the nature and existence of “UFOs.” The official responses consistently state that, circa 1998, the U.S. Government is not aware of evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial technology, and that NASA does not actively investigate “UFOs.” The collection includes references to materials of both confirmed and unconfirmed authenticity, as provided by constituents, as well as references to historical, scientific literature addressing specific “UFO” sighting claims.
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have bren an NBC newsm:t!l in
Australia. But the prob:crn ~ecms tll b.:
th:it Cooper has nc,.·er heard of it. He
has b-:cn out of tile spat'e program for
SP.Ven years. and talks freely about
urus lo reporters, to the Columbia
"UFO recording·•.. to Mike Douglas,
to friends and associates. Somehow he
k:iows nothing abou t. "his" space
UFO-and he has no reason to be
silent. His space UFO never existed.
Confronted by this evidence,
Fawcett (letter of May 10, 1976)
insists that "I sincerarly indic;iting
that this was the astronau t photograph
which had buzzed Coyne.
It would ha\'e been a neat trick for
the Skylab astronauts to have photo·
graphed anything on October 18th.
since they weren·t even on board the
space s tation. The prc\'ious crew had
returned to E:irth a 111011th before and
thei r relie f ere ·.\· was not sr.lwduled to
blast off for anothl·r thrPe weeks. The
pho tograph prin!rd in the rn:il(a7.ine
was clearly labt•lt·rl rm its backsidl' as
r.j,•('fNI frnm hi, spaf'(•cr;1rt in an
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(11:is photo is often referred to :is the
"cl:issical domed UFO" shnt). UfO
re$c:Jrchers anrl mai;azine edi tors had
dearly not made Hen a minia1u111 of
effort to verify thes•? t ransparent
errors and mistakes. but instr:ad p.!ssed
011 the false data to the public.
ThOU$ands more were dcceivr.d.
Lall' in 197:J, ;i strange ob!c••:t did
appNtr in Skylab sp,,Cl' photograph,.
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June, Lhe objcct was not 11oticE' rl bl·
UFO researchers but bv govE>rnmcn·t
photo analysts. pl..t~ '33 •
Rather than ·•swP.ep thc t;FO under
the rug", the officials look the other
tack : it might be a mysterious So,·itit
SatP.llite and could be of great value to
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